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Snuffysmith's Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Haaretz Obama must deal with important questions of the Mideast conflict By Zvi Bar'el For 41 years, Washington turned a blind eye. It protested a bit, scolded a bit, and mostly made do with periodically stating that its policy has not changed - it still opposes settlements in the territories and does not recognize the annexation of East Jerusalem or the Golan Heights. Suddenly, it gave us a resounding...
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ConWebBlog: The Weblog of ConWebWat (Free subscription) | yesterday
For the second day in a row , Joseph Farah is so apoplectic that someone would dare criticize WorldNetDaily that he can't get his facts straight. Farah's target in his Nov. 21 column is an Anti-Defamation League report , "Rage Grows in America: Anti‑Government Conspiracies." After noting that the ADL states that "Some even compared the Obama administration’s intentions to...
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Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
JERUSALEM – In defiance of President Obama's demands that Israel cease building in sections of Jerusalem and the West Bank, New York state assemblyman Dov Hikind laid the cornerstone for the second phase of a new Jewish construction project in the Nof Tzion neighborhood in eastern Jerusalem.. Together with Knesset Member Danny Danon, a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party,...
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What Really happened (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
The Quds information center has disclosed Thursday that the Israeli occupation authorities have prepared the blueprints for seven settlement projects in the occupied city of Jerusalem as part of its efforts to judaize the Palestinian city. In a statement it issued and published by the Quds Press, the center pointed out that the new suburb that the IOA announced it would construct in Israeli settlement...
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Sify (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will seek a final-peace accord with the Palestine Authority if talks resume, and not an interim solution.
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Safe Democracy (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
David Ignatius 11/19/2009 Ramallah, a Palestinian settlement on the West Bank, is making great progress toward functionality and prosperity. But the peace process has imploded and opportunities have been missed as Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, and President Obama have failed to reach effective terms in their negotiations. The author suggests...
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Angry Arab News Service (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
"Even Israeli hard-liners, including Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, agree that the improvement in Palestinian security forces is real." The rest of the article is a tribute to Fayyad and to the PA collaboration militia of oppression that he has supervised. "Fayyad's biggest success story -- to the Israelis' astonishment -- has been in security. When he became prime minister in 2007,...
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The Empire Chronicles (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
An Arab newspaper says that Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu approved a prisoner exchange deal with Hamas terrorists that would eventually result in the return of kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit, Arutz 7 reports. According to the report published Thursday in al-Manar, Netanyahu agreed to carry out the first stage of the deal, in which Shalit will be transferred to Egypt. The newspaper,...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The Palestinian Authority lacks the support to issue another unilateral declaration of independence – it should not be hasty The Palestinian Authority has been making some rather strange decisions lately. In October, it opposed the Goldstone report on the Gaza war, which raised serious questions about Israel's conduct in that conflict, when it first came before the UN human rights council in...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
• Controversial settlement expansion criticised • Obama's efforts to resume negotiations undermined The White House yesterday expressed exasperation with Israel over a plan to build 900 new houses on the West Bank at a time when Barack Obama is trying to broker a Middle East peace agreement. Although Obama is mainly focused on a tour of south-east Asia, the White House took time out to express...
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Reuters (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu voiced concern on Tuesday over a mutiny by pro-settler soldiers that raised fears of more rebellion in the ranks in any future land-for-peace moves with the Palestinians.
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Palestinian Pundit (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
By Gideon Levy Haaretz "President Shimon Peres considers Richard Goldstone a "small man, devoid of any sense of justice, a technocrat with no real understanding of jurisprudence." Same to you, we used to say when we were kids. Indeed, it's amazing to see how aptly these harsh remarks describe Peres himself, a small man, devoid of any sense of justice .... Peres is our beautiful and misleading...
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Palestinian Pundit (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
By Donald Macintyre The Independent ( Left: A cartoon by Emad Hajjaj showing that the Palestinian "cause" has become just a game for Palestinian "leaders.") "As so often in the Middle East, we have been here before . The latest suggestion – that a frustrated Palestinian leadership would unilaterally declare a state and invite international recognition for it – is...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
• Frustration at impasse on 'two-state project' • Israel warns of retaliation over any unilateral move Palestinians have formally asked the European Union to urge the UN security council to recognise a fully independent state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in response to the current impasse in peace negotiations with Israel. Saeb Erakat, the chief Palestinian negotiator, confirmed that...
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Poor Mojo Newswire (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Informed Comment: Palestinians Consider Going to the UNO for a State; Israeli Right threatens to Recognize its own Colonies in Retaliation As Professor Cole says, the Palestinians are the most oppressed people in the world right now. The Palestinian leadership is making medium-term preparations to go to the United Nations to ask for a declaration of a Palestinian state within 1967 borders (i.e. in...
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abdulruff | 02/22/2009
New Regime in Israel for Old tactics - by Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal ------------------------ After a prolonged horse trading efforts by him, Benjamin Netanyahu, the leader of the right-of-centre Likud party, has been asked to form Israel 's next government. His position was bolstered on 19 February when Avigdor Lieberman, head of Yisrael Beiteinu, which favors tightening the Israeli blockade on Gaza...